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Bharat Gera is an engineering manager in the IBM Information Management, Big Data Group. He has both technical and management oversight to the development of IBM BigInsights Big Data Stack. He has worked primarily in the storage, database, data warehouse and analytics domains over the past decade and a half. He is currently leading the Business Intelligence SQL access to BigInsights Hadoop.

Life was given to us a billion years ago; contrast this with the evolution of big data which has truly existed for less than a decade. Big data has been a defining method to capture all time events and is intrinsic to deciphering intelligence otherwise unavailable to humanity.

Big data is poised to reshape the way we live, work and think. The telecommunications sector, which has been slow to realize the shifting ground, is catching up to redefine the customer digital experience, using big data and analytics.